Shane Bryan, tutor scam

Hi there,

I'm Elmer from the Philippines. Shane Brayan emailed me telling me that they are in need of a Private Tutor to their son. It seems that the messages and contract he sent me are similar to what I've seen here in this website. Please help me out to confirm further. His phone number is +44 7024019766 and wants me to contact Home Office, UK Boarder Agency,
PO Box 3468 , Sheffield ,
S3 8WA ,
United Kingdom
E mail: [email protected]

+44702 402 2738

+44702 402 3744


pls help.

Regards,
Elmer

Hi and welcome to Scamwarners.
It's a scam. The Home Office does not use free email addresses or 4470 numbers that redirect calls anywhere in the world.

100% scam, absolutely no doubt about it.

First of all, there is no UK BOARDER agency (this scammer has spelling issues, and we've seen this exact same misspelling from scammers before).

Second, even if there was one, the UK government does not use free email addresses (@live.co.uk) --anything from the government would be from a government email address (ending in .gov.uk).

Third, 44-70 numbers are redirect numbers, forwarded to phones all over the world. They are used frequently by scammers pretending to be in UK. If you dial the number, you think you are calling UK, but the call is actually being forwarded to the scammer's cellphone in Africa.

The fake border agency will tell you they are getting your visa to work in the UK (which they can't do, you would actually have to do yourself, and getting a work visa for UK is not easy), and they will charge you various fees for this process. In reality, the agency is just your scammer or one of his accomplices, who will pocket the money and walk away.

The best thing you can do is drop this scammer. Ignore him, tell him you are no longer interested, or just walk away. Don't tell him what he did wrong, and don't point him to the discussion here, or he may change the scam for next time.

Edit to add: Can you post "Shane's" emails? They will hlep others to avoid being scammed.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the help. You saved my life. anyway there's another scammer who posted an invitation on my email. Read on:
Dear Teacher.

We are a Canadian family living in UK We read your profile at timejob.com and we have decided that you come and teach English to my Wife and my little son Peter because my Wife is a Swedish and she is not very good in English so that why we want you to come and teach English to her and my little son Though my son is better than my Wife because he is schooling here in UK but my Wife is a Nurse by Profession but her English is not good to be able to socialize with her friends here so we want you to come and teach her and my son.

About Our Family

We are a professional couple, living in a big UK city. My Wife and Son is fairly easy going and relaxed persons. Having English as a first language is not much required in fact, we would entertain you speaking to them in your own mother-tongue during lecturer so as to create fun.

We only seek a Teacher for basic English tutoring as what we need is for my Wife to atleast understand the basics in English. If you accept to take a position with us, you would be paid 3500GBP with a weekly pocket money of 400Pounds. I guess you'd say this is much, but the Company pays us well and I love my only child/Wife so much. Hence we are doing anything that would motivate you putting your best in tutoring my family (Wife/Son).

Should you accept the offer, we are willing to undertake the full cost of your traveling down here in UK. We would recommend a reputable travel agency immediately here in UK that would process your travel documents because we need you quite soon as my Wife is about to go for an interview in an Hospital this December and we need her to atleast defend her self in English during the interview.

Please communicate your interest to me through my direct mobile line +447024022994 so that we can discuss your travel arrangements and also my Son's birthday is on the 10th of October and I would very much want you to be there.

We sincerely look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes

Mr and Mrs Harry Erton
Chief HR Manager
Nova Telecoms Ltd
Tel: +447024022994

While the emails of Shane Brayan are the following:
Personal Teacher Needed Urgently,

We are an American family working and living in London United Kingdom . My name

is SHANE BRAYAN. I have a wife and a son. My wife’s FRANCES and my son’s SMITH

who is Four years old I work with GUCCI DESIGNERS CO. UK a reputable designers

company as a manager.

We have received your contact through my lawyers consultant TIMES JOBS.
My wife works with BRITISH AIRWAYS, because of the nature of my wife’s Jobs, we

are finding it difficult to look into my son’s education and up keeping therefore

I am contacting you today for us to discuss the possibility of hiring you as our

son's personal teacher.

We have agreed to pay you 920 Great British Pounds per week for this service. You

will need to be in this service for a minimum period of 12 months. You will have

accommodation with us as well as a car if you can drive.

If you wish to take up this position please write me back .Let us discuss

further. I will need you to start as soon as possible.

Your traveling effects will be arranged by my family as a matter of

urgency.Please complete the below information

1. Full name: ...............................................

2. Country of Nationality: .............................

3. Current Resident Country: .........................

4. Contact Address: .....................................

5. Telephone/Fax no: ...................................

6. Marital Status: .........................................

7. Sex: ........................................................

8. Age: .........................................................

9. C/V and your credentials.

I shall go to my lawyer ASAP to prepare the contract which I will send to you via

email for your review and acceptance.MARK will be so excited and can’t wait to

have you around Be informed that we shall take care of your tax here in London ,

you will be updated fully in the contract letter.

I will take care of your flight ticket; visa fees to enable you join my family

with ease.

Warm Regards,
SHANE BRAYAN.

Glad we were of help to you.

Yes, definite scam emails. Thanks for posting them. Can you please post the email addresses those were sent from (and the headers if you know how to do that) so that the information shows up in searches for others?

Thank you very much for this post as I was going to accept the job but did received a similar message with the same descriptions just the boy name was changed, so I will add the name and adress and phone they gave me so people can be aware of this false name too.

Mr and Mrs Harry Erton
Chief HR Manager
Nova Telecoms Ltd
Tel: +447024099675

and the name used in the second mail is :

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferguson
+447024037067
Fax: +44 020 7361 1991

Hope it will help other girls !

Oh and the mail adresses were :

[email protected] (Nova Telecoms Limited
Cooperate Address
41 Davies Street London MIK 5DA
United Kingdom.)

and

[email protected]

I guys,

I decided to sigh to this forum on behalf of the company I work for.
It is Novatelecom Ltd, we are basically located in Barcelona. We got to know by chance that someone is faking our company identity for doing scams, which is completely unacepptable from our side, as we are a serious and wellknown business company. There is a girl from Argentina that was contacted by Mr Erton through a nanny´s website, telling her she was shoosen to work for them as a nanny for their only child peter, apparently they were a Canadian family who turned to live to UK. He asked her(Argentinian girl) to send some money via western Union for all the visa processing and necessary documents. She sent the money and this trickster Mr Erton poked the money and walked away. We do not know this Guy Erton, and definitely he does not work for our company and will not work ever by sure!

I come today to clarify that this fake guy called Mr Erton, shane, Javier or whatever name he shooses to do his misdeeds does not come from our company.

All these people should go to jail, cause they are taking big advantage from inocent people. So please girls if you receive any job advertisement from someone saying works for Novatelecom Ltd is liying and you are about to fall in a trap. If you have any doubs or concernings about what I have just stated or if you even want to know more of this, you can contact me to: [email protected] or [email protected]

Thanks for your time and attention,

http://www.novatelecom.com/section-market/cat-media
Novatelecom Ltd.

Welcome to Scamwarners.
Scammers often use the names of genuine businesses, and we never doubted that this was the case here.
People prepared to cheat those looking for employment, think nothing about impersonation.
Apart from putting a warning on your website, there is nothing you can do about it.

hello all!
I got the exact email from
Dr. Chris Victor
+447024019766,
+447024039141
+447024064179
CVS PHARMACEUTICAL UK

UK Home Office, Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon, Surrey CR9 2BY,
United Kingdom
E mail: [email protected]
Tel:+44 (0) 7024044381 , +44 (0) 7024044396 | Fax+ 44 (0) 15253 00443. +44702 404 6516

Thanks to my deeply concerned friends and kababayan in UK Jonathan and Roger for going all the way researching the nature of these scam mails. and thanks for sites like this for such a big help too! way to go!